Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a prolonged orgy of jew-baiting, breast beating and other forms of glorification of the national ego, the Nazis are now getting down to business, for they cannot live by applause alone. The question is how are they going to go about favoring which class or classes. Recent steps serve as important pointers...
...power to go into the Department of Justice to change the records, I was rather ashamed of being a citizen of this nation." But Mr. Fox no longer thinks that Mr. Mayer changed the record. "When he said that," observed Mr. Fox. "he was full of ego." Mr. Fox now believes that the record was changed by Harley Lyman Clarke, the man to whom Mr. Fox sold his companies in the spring of 1930 and who is Mr. Fox's special and most bitter hate...
...room and drew another remark out of the actor. "Right, you've got to be careful what you say and do. You're just one among several millions of attentive germs on concrete space, and audiences as well as actors (with a chuckle) are 60 to 40 per cent ego, which is 40 to 60 per cent vanity and the substance of our existence...
...Picture the cancerous growth of modern infidelity as ego-complexed pulpiteers, disguising the breed of the wolf beneath silk cassocks and lacy chasubles, masquerade in imposing processions within high vaulted Gothic cathedrals, built with the superfluous millions of American plutocrats. . . . Think of the brilliant agnostics who read from the Scriptures with crossed thumbs, tongues in the cheek, and mental reservations, who place the Bible on the one level with heathen philosophies. . . . Think of the smooth, oily surrender of the deity of our Savior ... I still repeat the cry, 'BACK TO LUTHER...
...Gather is not prepossessing at first sight. A private tutor in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard graduate, intellectual in his late 30's, with a glass eye (unexplained), an increasingly unhappy marriage and a correspondingly increasing tendency to drunkenness, he has in his cosmos not only too much ego but too much untethered intelligence and the haunting, still unlaid nightmare of a childhood tragedy. At outs with his wife for the past six months, he has suspected her and his best friend of being more than friendly. Acting on a candid letter from another friend, Gather is cutting short...